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thats a remarkable service. They take this ugly url: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ http://youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ [38 characters] and turn it i
by pclark 18y ago
thats a remarkable service. They take this ugly url: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ http://youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ [38 characters]
and turn it into this pretty url:
http://youtube.decenturl.com/medieval-help-desk http://youtube.decenturl.com/medieval-help-desk [47 characters]
their "pretty" url is much longer than the original one. What the hell!?
- decode 18y agoYep, adding information often means adding space. On the other hand, you can shorten http://www.amazon.com/Depends-What-Youre-At/dp/B001DQF7VW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1239113872&sr=8-2 http://www.amazon.com/Depends-What-Youre-At/dp/B001DQF7VW/re... [109 characters] to http://amazon.decenturl.com/depends http://amazon.decenturl.com/depends [37 characters], which adds information and also saves space.
- benhoyt 18y agoYep, that's exactly the kind of thing DecentURL's for. Though it's even better for modifying (say) YouTube URLs which don't have any meaning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4cmrMJul1g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4cmrMJul1g turns into http://youtube.decenturl.com/mr-bean-swimming http://youtube.decenturl.com/mr-bean-swimming
- TweedHeads 18y agoHmm, now I wonder why YouTube doesn't offer 'prettyfied' urls so we don't have to click links like: http://youtube.com/watch?v=never-gonna-give-you-up http://youtube.com/watch?v=never-gonna-give-you-up
- Xichekolas 18y agoNot to be totally facetious, but if they did it'd be much harder to Rick Roll someone.
- ensignavenger 18y agoYou could still use the old, ugly URL for such purposes.
- vaksel 18y agowhats stopping someone from using a different title?
- paul7986 18y agoDo ppl still enjoy a good RickRoll? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffuAFl18_k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffuAFl18_k - watch out :) .
- pclark 18y agoprobably the same reason Facebook, Amazon, eBay and tons of other companies don't use prettyfied urls.
- sachinag 18y agoAmazon and eBay have systems going back to 1995 to support; they also expose prettified URLs that redirect to Google. They know they have a (slight) problem there, but they do the best they can with what they've got. As for Facebook, I've always thought they were pretty human-readable.